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Scaly :: Scaly (a.) Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem..

Ichthyosis :: Ichthyosis (n.) A disease in which the skin is thick, rough, and scaly; -- called also fishskin..

Squamosal :: Squamoid (a.) Resembling a scale; also, covered with scales; scaly..

Oak :: Oak (n.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut, called an acorn, which is more or less inclosed in a scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe, Asia, and the other parts of North America, a very few barely reaching the northern parts of South America and Afric

Scaly :: Scaly (a.) Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish..

Shard-borne :: Shard-borne (a.) Borne on shards or scaly wing cases.

Oxamethane :: Oxamethane (n.) Ethyl oxamate, obtained as a white scaly crystalline powder..

Manis :: Manis (n.) A genus of edentates, covered with large, hard, triangular scales, with sharp edges that overlap each other like tiles on a roof. They inhabit the warmest parts of Asia and Africa, and feed on ants. Called also Scaly anteater. See Pangolin..

Scaly-winged :: Scaly-winged (a.) Scale-winged.

Stigma :: Stigma (v. t.) A small spot, mark, scar, or a minute hole; -- applied especially to a spot on the outer surface of a Graafian follicle, and to spots of intercellular substance in scaly epithelium, or to minute holes in such spots..

Lichen :: Lichen (n.) One of a class of cellular, flowerless plants, (technically called Lichenes), having no distinction of leaf and stem, usually of scaly, expanded, frond-like forms, but sometimes erect or pendulous and variously branched. They derive their nourishment from the air, and generate by means of spores. The species are very widely distributed, and form irregular spots or patches, usually of a greenish or yellowish color, upon rocks, trees, and various bodies, to which they adhere with great

Ross :: Ross (v. t.) To divest of the ross, or rough, scaly surface; as, to ross bark..

Podotheca :: Podotheca (n.) The scaly covering of the foot of a bird or reptile.

Scaliness :: Scaliness (n.) The state of being scaly; roughness.

Squawweed :: Squawroot (n.) A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; -- called also cancer root.

Pentail :: Pentail (n.) A peculiar insectivore (Ptilocercus Lowii) of Borneo; -- so called from its very long, quill-shaped tail, which is scaly at the base and plumose at the tip..

Dactylotheca :: Dactylotheca (n.) The scaly covering of the toes, as in birds..

Strobile :: Strobile (n.) A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, as the hop or pine; a cone. See Cone, n., 3..

Scaly :: Scaly (a.) Mean; low; as, a scaly fellow..

Pangolin :: Pangolin (n.) Any one of several species of Manis, Pholidotus, and related genera, found in Africa and Asia. They are covered with imbricated scales, and feed upon ants. Called also scaly ant-eater..

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